Urban community of Nice Côte d'Azur

The Urban community of Nice Côte d'Azur (French: communauté urbaine Nice Côte d'Azur), is the former intercommunal structure gathering the city of Nice (France) and some of its suburbs. It was created in December 2008.[1]

Nice Côte d'Azur
Former communauté urbaine
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Alpes-Maritimes
No. of communes	27
Established	2008
Disbanded	2012
Seat	Nice
Area	351 km2 (136 sq mi)
Population  (2008)	535,543
• Density	1,526/km2 (3,950/sq mi)

The Urban community of Nice Côte d'Azur encompasses essentially the eastern part of the metropolitan area of Nice (see infobox at Nice article for the metropolitan area), the western communes of the metropolitan area around Cannes and Antibes having refused to join in.

Those parts of the metropolitan area that are not inside the Community have formed different intercommunal structures, such as:

• Communauté d'agglomération de Sophia Antipolis, with Antibes and Valbonne in it
• Communauté d'agglomération du Moyen Pays Provençal
• Communauté de communes du Pays des Paillons
• etc.

On 1 January 2012, the urban community and three communities of communes merged becoming the Metropolis Nice Côte d'Azur.